Begnište (Macedonian: Бегниште) is a village in the municipality of Kavadarci, North Macedonia.
Begnište
Бегниште | |
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Village | |
  Begnište Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°22′03″N 21°59′51″E / 41.367582°N 21.997472°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Vardar |
| Municipality |  Kavadarci |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 369 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | . |
Demographics
editAccording to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900 the settlement is recorded as "Begništa" in which 860 inhabitants lived, all Cristian Bulgarians.[1] On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is written as "Beglišta" and shown as a Christian Bulgarian village.[2] According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 369 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]
- Macedonians 368
- Serbs 1
Etymology
editThe name of the village of Begnište derives from the combination of the word Beg which is the Turkic title for a chieftain, and the suffix (n)iste.
References
edit- ^ Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 154
- ^ Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
- ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 108.